liberal N proud Donating Member (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Wed Apr-07-10 07:23 AM
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My 22 year old now uninsured
How can this happen?
We received notice this week that because our daughter was no longer in college that she would no longer be covered by our insurance plan.
I called the insurance company and asked them if the new law signed 2 weeks ago didn't permit her to stay on our insurance until she was 26.
Their reply was that the law signed just last week didn't take effect yet and they had not determined how it would effect our plan.
I kept pressing the issue and asking for supervisors and getting the same canned response word for word. Insurance companies don't plan on following the law of the land.
Should change the name to "stupid N proud". This part of the law doesn't start until September at the earliest, and companies can make people wait until their next plan year begins.
They will start covering the adult children who live in your basement right about the same time you get your pony. Hope and change you can believe in baby. It's all about the love.
If young adult is out of college can't she work? A lot? At even a few part time jobs? Lots of peope doing that right now and in some places for years.
Just thinking she could get her own policy like me and many others.
Insurance companies don't plan on following the law of the land.
doesn't the new law also require the "kid" to be a student or reside in the same house?
liberal N proud Donating Member (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Wed Apr-07-10 07:23 AM
Original message
My 22 year old now uninsured
How can this happen?
We received notice this week that because our daughter was no longer in college that she would no longer be covered by our insurance plan.
I called the insurance company and asked them if the new law signed 2 weeks ago didn't permit her to stay on our insurance until she was 26.
Their reply was that the law signed just last week didn't take effect yet and they had not determined how it would effect our plan.
I kept pressing the issue and asking for supervisors and getting the same canned response word for word. Insurance companies don't plan on following the law of the land.
No Unicorn Skittle Scat for you.
Can't wait until their premiums skyrocket four years worth in 8 months.
elleng Donating Member (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Wed Apr-07-10 07:27 AM
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2. Contact your Congress-Critters, White House, and media.
NJmaverick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Wed Apr-07-10 07:28 AM
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3. +1
annabanana Donating Member (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Wed Apr-07-10 07:42 AM
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10. (OR - read the bill) . . . n/t
elocs (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Wed Apr-07-10 07:32 AM
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7. I think they told you exactly right--the law has not taken effect yet.
From all that I've heard or read the child coverage to age 26 takes effect this year. I could google an answer, but so can you.
babylonsister (1000+ posts) Wed Apr-07-10 07:30 AM
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6. Seems your baby should be insurable within 6 months...
Unless the vaguely worded bill doesn't require them to go back after the fact and put them back on.
Anyway, an adult of 22 is not a baby anymore. Time to grow up.
BOR, in his Miller Time segment said, "If I have a kid still at home at 26, he's going to need healthcare."
Both my kids were out workin' by the time they were 20! Livin' in Dad's house sorta cramped there style!
I fully expect a donk bill coming out that demands parents keep their children in their house (no rent, no rules) until the parents are dead. The Parental Residential Fairness Act.
I had a Brutha tell me one day that if a man owns pick-up and he doesn't make at least $50 a day with it then it means he never left the house.
In my experience, the "brutha" ( not any denomination of skin tone, for you idiot lurkers ), was rippin' the copper outa the track homes we were building at the pace of 3 a day!
Hope your "brutha" was earning it honestly!
He was actually. Hauling stuff for people. Moving folk and scrapping stuff left out for the trash.
He had a very valid point and wasn't the typical obama supporter type, he wasn't scared to work.
It was loading boxcars out of a freezer for $3.25/hr. Damn that job sucked! 20 below will make your nose bleed when you start movin' at a fast clip!
I had a Brutha tell me one day that if a man owns pick-up and he doesn't make at least $50 a day with it then it means he never left the house.